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Subject: Re: geforce question
From: Dave Leimbach <dleimbac@earthlink.net>
To: wayne.pascoe@realtime.co.uk
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It should be fine with XFree86 4.0.2.  I use one myself! :)

Dave
On 18 Apr 2001 22:09:39 +0100, Wayne Pascoe wrote:
> Daniel Leal <dleal@webvolution.net> writes:
> 
> 
> > I've been reading the mailing lists to find out if the geforce 2
> > works fine with xfree86 4.02 under freebsd. I think a understand
> > that it works fine (its a litle complicated to configure but it
> > works, isnt it?).  But my question is a litle more stupid...: Does
> > this means that any geforce2 will work fine, or just for example,
> > nvidia's or asus's ???
> 
> The geforce 2 is just a graphics chipset. Many different vendors use
> this chipset in their graphic boards. Nvidia makes and licences this
> to other manufacturers like Herculese and Creative Labs.
> 
> I have a herculese Geforce 2 MX and this works fine with XFree86 4.0.3
> 
> You won't get 3D stuff working though, because this part of the driver
> is a closed-source unit that nvidia have only released for linux.
> 
> -- 
> - Wayne Pascoe 
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